Man charged with shooting LA police officer

LOS ANGELES 
A man who allegedly shot a Los Angeles police officer last week after a seven-hour standoff has been charged with three counts of attempted murder and six other felonies.

Samuel Jerome Jackson also was charged Monday with four counts of assault with a semiautomatic weapon and two counts of possession of a firearm by a felon. He is scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday.

Authorities say Jackson shot at three officers who responded to a home in Watts. One officer was shot in the arm and near the upper torso in his bulletproof vest. The other two officers were not injured.

Jackson was eventually arrested after barricading himself in the house for about seven hours.